Today The Girls are coming to you live from their first Fantoo Girls Sports Podcast book signing, where we dutifully autograph the inside cover of, "Would It Be Too Far-fetched to Imagine Jockeys are on The Take? The Inside Story of Big Brown, His Saga, The Tainted Trainer, The Hedge Fund and the Real Reason Behind Eight Belles' Death, With a Forward by Barbaro...From The Grave." It's not as wordy a title as we would have liked, but without lumping in Tim Donaghy and the NBA we were fresh out of filler. Let's just state for the record that horses do have brains, and it was darn hot that day. No man or beast with a brain and nothing to gain would have dealt with that nonsense. And no working toilets? Nuf said. At least Big Brown is alive, which is more than we can say about David Jacobs, the steroids dealer who had just spilled the beans to the NFL and was planning to do the same with ESPN. Along with a tour around the country to discuss the misuse of steroids in sports. Bags packed, tickets purchased, but he decides to kill himself and his girlfriend? Sorry buddy. You'll have to work harder to convince us of that one. Also on the gridiron we bid farewell to the Sack Master himself, Michael Strahan. Now, we have made much fun of the canyon between those two front teeth, but that man has done it all right. Retired on top, great stats, no drama, and a damn good sense of humor. Pushing a pregnant woman aside to get a story (that would be Carol...at Super Bowl 41)? Hey, the man has a future in media. Congrats, dude. You played for the enemy, but we love you much just the same. We celebrate the drama that was the Stanley Cup Finals and also bow to the Dominator in his retirement. Lord Stanley's Cup has already been "dinged" after a trip to Chris Chelios' Chili Bar. (You make up fart joke and insert here.) Just wait till we get our hands on it. Hockey - we'll miss you. Hurry up back y'all! Oh, Nadal. Apologizing to Federer? That had to hurt...HIM! We smell a Wimbledon victory in your future. That was a spanking of the highest accord, culminating in Nadal's fourth consecutive French Open. Over on the track, The Girls don't know what they dislike more: Kyle Busch creating a carbon footprint that rivals that of a megalasaurus or trying to cram a forced "triple crown" on us. You can't just create your own triple crown dude. Your karmic flip has occurred. Consider yourself out of contention. It will happen, and like Big Brown, no one will have a reasonable explanation. Except us. You messed with the sports gods. Baaaaaad move. And of course we cover the expected: Tim Donaghy and company release specifics regarding NBA-led manipulation of the outcome of playoff games. The only thing that we predicted that didn't happen was Charles Barkley reading the letter during halftime of Game 1. He probably had to bow out because he was involved somehow, someway. Why should we be surprised when the referees are part of the league? Remember the Mitchell Report? It's like having your mistress make sure you're not cheating on your wife. If sports really wanted to be certain that there was no funny business going on they would relinquish control of those entities that are there to protect the integrity of the game. The Girls will be billionaire team owners when that goes down. Donaghy aside, we take you through three very interesting games in the NBA Finals as the magical series to end all series careens towards closure. So far the Pierce on Perkins crime is atop The Girls list of most hilarious sports moments in these finals (and pretty much sports moments of the ages) that will have us laughing for years. With the playoffs coming to a close it leads us to that glorious time of the year where we can focus in on baseball before football kicks off. It's lazy, it's fun, it's summer. So, in this week's podcast we discuss Bud Selig's forgetfullness, Griffey Jr.s 600th, the smoking Phillies (they're not smoking, they're en fuego!), Dontrelle Willis' descent to the minors, Joba's drama, the REAL fight between the Rays and the Red Sox and Mr. Hardcore himself, Mariners GM Bill Bavasi. Who we adore, by the way, but we've tried to take things away from our kids and it just doesn't work. So much to talk about, so much to rip. and in this week's IT HAS TO BE SAID we lobby the government (how novel?!) for a new Election Day. So grab your favorite ref (they need some love), a funnel cake (mmmm) and a mini-fan (it's not the heat, it's the humidity!), it's time to talk sports with The Girls! Less